Week in Radio
- Last weekend was POTA weekend: 4 setups and 5 activations in 2 days around Michaux State Forest area
- Morsle to practice copying CW
- My first 2 CW contacts hunting POTA
- 40m
- X6100
- 71-foot EFRW
- 3D-printed Iambic paddles
- Fell apart pretty quickly, but got into their logs.
- Testing the footprint of the KA3TKW VHF/UHF repeaters to high on a hill. near Wrightsville with my trusty Quansheng at the SPARC picnic
- New house
- Extending my meshtastic network with a minimal external antenna
- Strong enough into 21 at 5 watts
- Flagpole mast with a tape measure yagi to try to get back east to Parkesburg.
- I was up way too late redesigning an antenna winder
for the smaller balun I like.
- I need to get the 3d printer and software going again since the move
- Xiegu x6100 has another dangerous firmware update
that I’ll try in the near future.
- The last firmware stopped all TX, so we’ll see what happens this time.
Other News
- A RTTY contest coming up this weekend
- AO-91: Monday, 10:15pm EDT
- SO-50: 437.795FM
- The 6m 53.21 repeater is up.